Major League Baseball’s annual Winter Meetings mark an unofficial beginning of hot stove season.
While the prize jewel of the off-season came off the board Sunday, with Juan Soto’s record-breaking contract with the New York Mets, the baseball world gathering in Dallas this week can only mean the action is only starting to get underway.
As clubs look to make a splash this winter, rumours and speculation will continue to fly, and you can follow along at Sportsnet.ca. Here is our running tracker of what MLB insiders across the industry are hearing.
3 p.m. ET — Dodgers still active in reliever market after bringing back Treinen
According to The Athletic‘s Fabian Ardaya, the Dodgers “seek at least one more reliever” after re-signing Blake Treinen on Sunday night. Ardaya writes that L.A. is looking at the top of the market, which includes interest in experienced closers Tanner Scott and Devin Williams.
12:30 p.m. ET — Nathan Eovaldi a ‘strong candidate’ to sign at Winter Meetings
During an episode of The Baseball Insiders show on YouTube, Fansided’s Robert Murray identified starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi as a ‘strong candidate’ to sign at this week’s Winter Meetings, adding that the right-hander is drawing ‘pretty significant interest.’
11 a.m. ET — Rosenthal expects Blue Jays ‘to put together ‘monster offer’ for Corbin Burnes‘
While appearing on the Fair Territory podcast Monday morning, The Athletic‘s Ken Rosenthal discussed the teams that missed out on Juan Soto and what could come next for the Yankees, Blue Jays, Red Sox and Dodgers. In his discussion of Toronto, Rosenthal said that he expects the Blue Jays “to put together a monster offer for Corbin Burnes. Burnes, the top starting pitcher available on the free-agent market, is coming off an All-Star season with the Baltimore Orioles, in which he posted a 2.92 ERA over 194.1 innings.